I was born in 1957. My father and uncles fought in World War II and the Korean War. I was raised to believe that Americans were the good guys. And then Walter Cronkite and John Kerry said we were the bad guys in Vietnam. A few years later Lyndon Johnson told us we were racists. A decade later Jimmy Carter told us to let the enemies of the United States do as they pleased because we had sinned against them. And every day the Media and the Left did everything they could to tear down our country and our spirit. We had stagflation (stagnant economy and 20% inflation), the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Carter Malaise. That was a low point.

And then a miracle happened. Ronald Reagan told us we weren’t the problem and that we really were the good guys. And it was like a cloud drifted past and the sun was shining on us again. And like magic, everything got better. And Americans were proud and happy again. And even the lousy leftists seem to remember they were Americans a little and it was morning in America again.

And George H. W. Bush said it was his turn to be President and he had learned his lesson and he would be just like Reagan only smarter and kinder. And we wanted to believe him and compared to Mike Dukakis he could have been John Wayne. So he got his turn. And we got a New World Order complete with higher taxes, NAFTA, shuttered factories, high unemployment, recession and Middle East War.

Everything was a muddle and a mess. When George W Bush said he was a Christian Conservative from Texas we hoped that he would right the ship. Avoiding Al Gore seemed like dodging a huge bullet. We hoped that we could start to repair some of the damage from his father and the Clintons. And the 9-11 happened. And that was like a punch to the throat. And W did a lot of things right. He joined the country in a crusade to crush Al Qaeda and the Taliban. And the young men of that generation answered the call and went to Afghanistan and crushed our enemies. And there was hope that we could subdue the Muslim extremists and end the Middle Eastern threats once and for all. But a unfunny thing happened. W had his own vision of a New world Order. And it involved draining off the blood and treasure of our country to turn the Middle East into Kansas. And he squandered both of those precious commodities until there was nothing left. And when he was finished Iraq wasn’t Kansas and the Democrats took the Congress and the Presidency. All W accomplished was killing and maiming a generation of young Americans, bankrupting the country and making Barack Hussein Obama president.

Obama’s presidency was like a foreign occupation. It was hard to decide which was worse, the injury or the insult. He took every opportunity to belittle and shame Americans and he did whatever damage he could do. Permanent double digit unemployment and wage stagnation had robbed a generation of the American dream and beggared their parents. Obamacare was the biggest legislative victory he scored against us but it also seemed to galvanize the country against him. The worst damage he did was the BLM activism that he aided and abetted. The other mischief he sponsored was spreading alien refugees wherever he could. And one other thing that he got behind was the whole gay marriage, transgender movement. He discovered that he had “evolved” to recognize a constitutional right to gay marriage and this dove-tailed with the lunacy that drove Justice Anthony Kennedy to inflict a Supreme Court decision forcing another insane assault on the American family.

And so, in 2015 we had hit bottom. It didn’t seem that anything could be done to save America from poverty and degradation. Our choices, such as they were, were Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Jeb! Bush. And we all knew neither of those two could beat Hillary. After all Bernie was supposed to lose and the super delegate system would make sure of that. Jeb was much too much of a gentleman to consider doing anything more than weakly protest at the unfair campaign attacks that Hillary’s machine would unleash and then good naturedly concede defeat. And when Antonin Scalia died suddenly during the election year it seemed as if nothing could save us from the dismantling of the First and second Amendments. This truly was the political low point of my entire life.

And then a miracle happened. Donald J. Trump. It seemed utterly impossible. But there were some voices that I followed who said he was the answer and our last hope. And interestingly they were on the Alt-Right (one specifically, Vox Day).

And they were right.

So twice in my adult life a leader has emerged who everyone said was crazy. And they said he was wrong and would cause disaster and maybe nuclear war. And both times he was the right man at the right time. And just as with Reagan it’s as if a cloud has drifted out of the way and the sun is shining down on us bright and warm.

And this is what I’ve learned. Don’t trust the elites, especially Republicans. Not in the Media, not in Academia, not in Industry and not in Washington. Don’t be mistaken into thinking that the Left are Americans even if they themselves are convinced they are. They’re not, they’re globalists. America is just an inconvenient stepping stone on the way to the global hive. Don’t trust anyone who has been in politics for his whole life and for pity’s sake don’t make him VP. Look for a courageous and confident leader who knows what the story is. Look for someone who is unafraid to speak the painful truth and hurt powerful people’s feelings. Look for someone who understands how the whole dirty business works and can’t be bought off. Look for someone who isn’t ashamed to be an American. And then back him to the Gates of Hell. We may still end up crushed by the Left. But at least we’ll know it is happening and we won’t be fooled again.

And remember, we got Reagan and Trump but there won’t be a third miracle, three strikes and you’re out.

My immediate thought was, finally! And that is the beauty of Donald Trump, he’s indefatigable. They attack and delay and obfuscate and he just keeps coming back to his purpose. And this must be the first man with a backbone and a work ethic to inhabit the White House since the 1980s. Hallelujah! So Gorsuch continues to pay off and in a few days we’ll see whether we also have to wait for Kennedy to go away. He has been moderating his extreme left-wing social biases in the last couple of decisions but I’d feel a lot better if he were about to call it a career. And what a relief it is to have someone who understands politics and how to sell a plan and how to strong arm the mindless boobs that make up the majority of the Republican Congressional Delegation. Since the President’s poll numbers have continued to rise the spineless congress critters have begun to take heart and maybe even start acting like the dominant party that their numbers represent. Of course it’s too much to ask for them to understand what their own constituencies are shouting to them from the rooftops, “Stop the Illegals!, Build the Wall!” That would be beyond their barely reptilian brains. But maybe they can be taught to trust their party’s leader once he has shown them what winning looks like.

But I digress. My point is that with someone running the ship, someone who isn’t a feckless dilettante without any concern for the people he’s supposed to be leading, actual progress on the right wing agenda can be made and, in fact, quite rapidly. You just have to keep up the pressure and keep fighting back. And I predict that once some real damage gets done to their agenda, the leftists will start to deflate and even the media will begin to lose heart. These are not strong people, they are herd creatures and once they get stampeded it’ll be every roach for himself. And that brings me to the Mueller – Sessions situation. Something is going on there under the surface that must be something like an arm wrestling contest. On the surface there seems to be no motion, nothing going on, but what is occurring is a dynamic tension that can’t last. I predict that President Trump is positioning his forces there to allow both sides to retreat from the field of battle without a decisive event. Basically there must be a mutually assured destruction in place and once both sides figure out how to retreat they will.

So that’s my read. Trump is banging away at this agenda of things and every once in a while he makes enough progress against the concerted forces of the media and the swamp to declare victory and plant his flag on some hard fought hill. And they call that bragging. I’d call them rallying cries to the troops. Well done Mr. President.

“If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.”

“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”

Any fans of Tropic Thunder know by analogy that you never go full-Pollyanna. And it would be wise for me to tamp down any outbursts of unbridled enthusiasm but I gotta tell you I can’t do it. And this isn’t predicated on the IG report burying Comey & Company or Mueller calling it quits in the near future or even the Republicans holding onto the House. I no longer think any of those things are required for Trump to get some big things done. The country at large is starting to see what really is going on in their government and I think they see who is doing things that help them and who is not. The G7 press conference and the Singapore meeting have provided President Trump with a stage from which to address the country directly. They are seeing an active leader who actually addresses American concerns in the international arena. Even his enemies like Bernie Sanders have no choice but admire his negotiating talent and ability to get off the dime with such tough customers as China and North Korea.

I think Donald Trump is intent on using his instincts for deal-making to renegotiate the globalization project in a way that re-establishes America as a manufacturing nation. And I think Trump wants to dump all the international relationships with countries that hate America. And that is my favorite side of him. He is a vindictive bastard who holds a grudge like nobody’s business. By a funny coincidence, so am I. It would warm my vendetta-loving heart to see him giving all our many false friends in the United Nations a hearty heave-ho over the side of USS America First. Every tin-pot Latin American, African and Middle Eastern dictator who ever chanted death to America should get evicted from his digs on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and sent packing back to the inhuman hellhole he came from. And I think he intends to use the NAFTA negotiations to address the illegal immigration problem. After all, why would you give free trading access to a country that openly advocates flooding your country with illegal aliens? And I think the NAFTA negotiations are the basis for President Trump’s statement that Mexico will pay for the wall. He will make them pay for the NAFTA agreement with a closed border and repatriation.

So that’s why I’m a big old optimist. And every day The Donald says or does something that makes me smile or chuckle with unrestrained schadenfreude. Every shot he takes at Hollywood or The Press or The Swamp or the Dems is music to my ears. And now, even when I hear of the latest anti-Trump atrocity (like by that imbecile De Niro), I am only mildly amused to think that these buzzing gnats are impotently attacking a giant that doesn’t even have a weapon small enough to use on them. They can only be mocked or ignore.

Of course, this does leave me with a problem. Ginning up outrage is sorta my whole stock in trade. I’m going to have to find a new source of outrage. Hmmmm. Well, I could go after nuns. I still owe them payback for the 8th Grade. That might work. Okay Sister Gertrude, put on your game face, it’s on!